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Okay, my brain hurts...is it time to go home yet? ;-)
LJ brainless question of the day:
What is your favorite cult film, and why?
At the moment? Buckaroo Bonzai - Adventures Across the 8th Dimension.
Although Tremors comes in close second. Not sure Blade Runner counts as a cult film - if it does, then definitely that - since I actually own it on DVD.
I don't feel like explaining why. Figure it out for yourselves.
Speaking of taste issues? The whole Buffy S5-7 vs. Buffy 1-3 debate arises again.
Easy - if you are obsessed with high school stories and tween romance - you probably loved 1-3, if you are obsessed with stories about 20something angst, depression, abusive relationships, post and current college angst,
job frustration, and are either a frustrated psychology major or philosophy major at heart? You probably loved 5-7 and think S4 is the ultimate season. Although 3's stand-alone and Mayor/Faith arc had its appeal.
Hopeless romantic into Twilight novels? 1-3 only. (1-2 - I doubt they stuck around much after that.)Or casual fan into watching something not too deep. (there are exceptions of course, aren't there always?)
Cynics into Supernatural, BSG,Doctor Who, and tv shows like Game of Thrones and True Blood? 4-7 OR scholarly fan wanting to analyze the thing to death.
(also exceptions...ETA: some of these people love Doctor Who for example, which is far from cnynical.)
Then of course there are the weird people like myself who liked everything but the last 10 issues of the comics. We don't fit in any category and just look in bewilderment at the rest of you. ;-)
[ETA: Also should include people who liked all the tv series seasons but hated all the comics even though they masochistically read them anyway. And then there's the people who ignored the comics completely and loved all the seasons ...ETAA: Alright, I'm bound to have forgotten someone - so create your own little special category.]
And finally the folks who well liked all the seasons including all the comics...
Okay, not finally, there's also the people who think the show was about a cheerleader slaying vampires directed towards tween girls and just don't get the appeal. (Uh, no, that was the movie. But I can understand the confusion.)
In short try figuring out why people like what they like at your own risk.
Personally, I think it's impossible, without pissing everyone off and being proven to be an ass.
back to figuring out this change order request...then home again home again jiggedty jig.
Okay, my brain hurts...is it time to go home yet? ;-)
LJ brainless question of the day:
What is your favorite cult film, and why?
At the moment? Buckaroo Bonzai - Adventures Across the 8th Dimension.
Although Tremors comes in close second. Not sure Blade Runner counts as a cult film - if it does, then definitely that - since I actually own it on DVD.
I don't feel like explaining why. Figure it out for yourselves.
Speaking of taste issues? The whole Buffy S5-7 vs. Buffy 1-3 debate arises again.
Easy - if you are obsessed with high school stories and tween romance - you probably loved 1-3, if you are obsessed with stories about 20something angst, depression, abusive relationships, post and current college angst,
job frustration, and are either a frustrated psychology major or philosophy major at heart? You probably loved 5-7 and think S4 is the ultimate season. Although 3's stand-alone and Mayor/Faith arc had its appeal.
Hopeless romantic into Twilight novels? 1-3 only. (1-2 - I doubt they stuck around much after that.)Or casual fan into watching something not too deep. (there are exceptions of course, aren't there always?)
Cynics into Supernatural, BSG,
(also exceptions...ETA: some of these people love Doctor Who for example, which is far from cnynical.)
Then of course there are the weird people like myself who liked everything but the last 10 issues of the comics. We don't fit in any category and just look in bewilderment at the rest of you. ;-)
[ETA: Also should include people who liked all the tv series seasons but hated all the comics even though they masochistically read them anyway. And then there's the people who ignored the comics completely and loved all the seasons ...ETAA: Alright, I'm bound to have forgotten someone - so create your own little special category.]
And finally the folks who well liked all the seasons including all the comics...
Okay, not finally, there's also the people who think the show was about a cheerleader slaying vampires directed towards tween girls and just don't get the appeal. (Uh, no, that was the movie. But I can understand the confusion.)
In short try figuring out why people like what they like at your own risk.
Personally, I think it's impossible, without pissing everyone off and being proven to be an ass.
back to figuring out this change order request...then home again home again jiggedty jig.
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Date: 2011-05-27 12:14 am (UTC)Darcy? 5-7
Ashley Wilkes? 4
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Date: 2011-05-27 01:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-27 04:04 am (UTC)Spike kept his obsession about his obsession. He didn't plot to let Xander drink himself to death and take possession of Dawn...
Just sayin'
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Date: 2011-05-27 04:38 pm (UTC)and Jack Sparrow by way of John Constantine with a little
Byron thrown in.
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Date: 2011-05-27 05:41 pm (UTC)Can definitely see some Max DeWinter in Angel and I think Mr. Rochester has some overlap as well, except Angel's crazy ex in the attic is a crazy quartet of Dru, Darla, Spike, and Angelus.
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Date: 2011-05-27 10:38 pm (UTC)Hmmm on the rock star? For some reason I see Billy Idol mixed with Crowley and Lord Byron (hopeless romantic and geek). (Oh, I do miss the Spikester, still my favorite male fictional character...and no, I don't think either Marsters or Whedon are solely responsible for creating him. I think he was a group effort.)
except Angel's crazy ex in the attic is a crazy quartet of Dru, Darla, Spike, and Angelus.
Word. So true.
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Date: 2011-05-27 03:41 am (UTC)Surely there are some other literary heroes we can cite? I'm drawing a blank — too many movies.
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Date: 2011-05-27 04:41 pm (UTC)There are, but I'm also drawing a blank. Keep coming up with movies.
Maybe Lymond in Dorothy Dunnet's novels? Or one of the Three Musketeers? How about The Scarlett Pimpernell? Or...in comics,
John Constantine. In Shakespeare? Puck ...another blank.
Angel is definitely MacBeth.